Update: Drivers Crash In Brooklyn, Injuring Three People Standing On A Sidewalk
Updated at 9:50 a.m. Two drivers collided in central Brooklyn on Sunday night, and one of the drivers ended up jumping the curb and smashing into a building, where he struck and injured a mom and her child who had been standing on a sidewalk, police said.
According to the NYPD, two drivers were both headed south on Nostrand Avenue at around 9:10 p.m. As they approached Park Avenue on the border of South Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant, the drivers collided — it is not clear who was at fault — and one of the vehicles, a Fisker Ocean, careened onto the sidewalk, where its driver struck a 31-year-old woman and her 4-year-old child.
Debris — a smashed-up fence, a child’s kick scooter and a baby stroller, a crumpled car — were on the scene for hours after. Police said on Monday that both victims were in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital, but Williamsburg News reported that two kids had been struck and one was in critical condition. The Fisker Ocean had TLC plates — its record includes a red-light ticket earlier this year and a speeding ticket last year.
“We should have more speed cameras and even more speed bumps to slow down drivers,” said Monie Love, home health aide in the neighborhood. “I mean, it’s a school zone so it’s for the safety of the children. And here’s this family hurt just on the sidewalk.”
Sunday’s crash is just two blocks south of where a 9-year-old boy was struck and killed by a bus driver in May.
Nostrand Avenue is a known danger strip because of several long blocks. Last year, there were 62 reported crashes just on the short stretch between Flushing and DeKalb avenues, according to city stats, injuring 30 people.
Park Avenue is no safer. Over the same period, a similarly short stretch between Tompkins and Classon avenues was the site of 69 reported crashes, which injured 31 people, according to city statistics.
Some residents of the community have previously opposed safety measures on the neighborhood’s streets.
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